Guangzhou Library () is a public library in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, China. The library has moved to a new building in Zhujiang New Town, which fully opened on 23 June 2013. The old building in Zhongshan Road has been closed since 1 April 2013. Introduction The Guangzhou Library, established by the Guangzhou Municipal Government (GMG), was created for the benefit of the public's welfare, and to serve as a cultural and educational institution. The library's services are based on collecting, organizing, and housing all categories of written knowledge and information including paper-based materials, audio-visual materials, and digital materials. The library offers lending materials, reference and information services, exhibitions and lectures, art appreciation, cultural exhibits, Internet services, public education services, research, and spaces for communication. The new Guangzhou Library is situated on the banks of the Pearl River on Flower City Square and on Guangzhou's new central axis. The square is the GMG's effort to create a city "living room". The library is the "cultural window" of the city's "living room". The new library uses "Beautiful Books" as the design concept, and the placement of the structure is based on the city's new central axis. Taken from east to west, the design of the north and south towers bears a resemblance to the Chinese character "之". The cascading style of the "books" on the exterior is representative of the overlap of history and culture. At the same time, the design integrates the typical architectural concept of arcade, and embodies elements of Lingnan art. The new Guangzhou Library covers a gross area of 100 thousand square meters and holds 8.43 million collection. It provides four thousand seats and 500 computers for readers to use. There are four thousand Internet nodes and the wifi service is available in the whole building. Services provided include the lending and housing of materials and reference services. The Digital New Library surface area: 100,000 square meters collection: 8.43 million volume seats: 4,000 public use computers: 500 wired Internet connections: 4,000 wireless coverage area: 100% Traditional collection volumes 3.2 million children's books 356,000 rare books 6,793 Braille books 3,617 A-V materials 451,000 bound newspapers & periodicals 139,000 newspapers & periodicals 4,743 Digital resources e-books: 425,000 e-magazines: 18,000 e-newspapers: 565 dissertations: 1.89 million conference papers: 3.77 million multimedia (audio-visual): 43,000 History In 1927, Lin Yungai, a former mayor of Guangzhou, proposed setting up the Municipal Zhongshan Library